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Seven Stages Shakespeare Company launched Shakespeare’s Pen, an open workshop for actors, artists, designers, and humans of all walks of life to come together and share in the splendor of Shakespeare's words. The next date for Shakespeare’s Pen is Monday October 14 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at The Players’ Ring theater.  As with all 7SSC’s programs, this event is "Pay What You Will.” (Continued below) 

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Saturday marks the 29^th celebration of Apple Harvest Day, the Seacoast’s largest fall festival, which attracted over 50,000 people last year.  2013 This year features over 300 vendors, six entertainment stages, numerous family-friendly activities and a 5K road race on October 5. (Schedule of events below) 

THROUGH OCTOBER

Join the Portsmouth Halloween Parade at their annual Mask-arade art show hosted by the Press Room, opening on Friday, Oct. 4 and showing throughout the month of October. Leaping from the walls is a phantasmagorical exhibit of masks, props, costumes and other magical paraphernalia created for, inspired by the 19th annual Portsmouth Halloween Parade, a grassroots, all-volunteer parade that takes inspiration from the traditional roots of Halloween. (Continued below) 

THRU OCTOBER 31, 2013

Recognized as a “foodie” destination, with more restaurant seats than residents, Portsmouth has loved its “public houses” from the start. Strawbery Banke Museum features its 2013 exhibit, “Tapping Portsmouth: How the Brewing Industry Shaped the City” through October 31. (Continued below) 

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On Sunday October 6 at 2 pm, Lisa Brooks, Amherst College Native American Studies Program, discusses her book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast and Native American place and cultural identification. (Continued below) 

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The last lecture in the 2013 season of the Piscataquq Decorative Arts Society will be given by Brock Jobe, Professor of American Decorative Arts, Winterthur Museum on November 12. The title of his lecture is “Venture Cargoes: The Marketing of New England Furniture Along the Atlantic Coast in the Eighteenth Century”.  (Continued below)

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The ninth Annual Portsmouth Fairy House Tour will take place on September 21 and 22, 2013 from 11:00 am-3:00 pm on the grounds of Strawbery Banke Museum, the Governor John Langdon House, Prescott Park and Peirce Island in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and will feature more than 175 handcrafted fairy houses--a record number. (Continued below) 

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The Mark Wentworth Home is pleased to announce the opening of their fall Artistry in the Home exhibition featuring the works of painter, Susan Hennigan, RN. Artistry in the Home is a quarterly exhibition at the Mark Wentworth Home featuring Seacoast artists. (continued below) 

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The Portsmouth Athenaeum will be holding its annual book sale on Saturday, September 28 from 9-noon at the North Church Parish House on Spinney Road in Portsmouth. New this year is an early bird preview on Friday, September 27 from 6:00-8:00 pm. Admission to the early bird preview is $15 per person.(Continued details below)

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Imagine our area a forested wilderness, with local families struggling for survival, fearful of threats from unseen foes.  That’s how people had to live 300 years ago, when war was a way of life. Get the full story of armed scouts defending the region in a lecture September 28 in South Berwick. (Continued below)